• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

For the love of the game!

K

Ken Stallings

Guest
One of the best sports stories I have read!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5218228

The short version is a brand new team met a very strong one. The strong team was trouncing the weak team. They offered to forfeit the game so that the mercy rule would not be invoked. But instead the weak team decided to.

Why?

Because that allowed the game to end and the strong team to spend the rest of the time giving ad-hoc training to the weak team, plus organizing an effort to provide them surplus used equipment.

Ken
 
One of the best deeds in a woman's spin-off of the best team sport ever created! Super little short story Ken. Made my morning. Up for F-1, watching GP2 A day of racing, Indy and Charlotte World 600.:ernae:

And speaking of women and softball/baseball, Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek, called "the fanciest-fielding first baseman I've ever seen, man or woman." by former Yankee first baseman Wally Pipp, passed away this past Monday at the age of 84. She inspired the role played by Geena Davis in the movie "A League Of their Own".

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/22/local/la-me-dorothy-kamenshek-20100522

Caz
 
What a great thing this is! Congrats to both teams!

This is what true sportsman/womanship is all about. Its not the money like the pro's make it appear, just so they can act like overpaid spoiled brats.

Minor confession here ... excsuse me while I wipe my eyes!

:applause::applause::applause:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top